Word: sustainer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pope's funeral. So Devine was noncommittal to Carter. "I let him know that it was not a consistent position to ask for my support when he was doing everything to get me out of Congress," Devine said later. Yet when the hour came, he voted to sustain the President's veto...
This sense of the falsity, of the absurdity of much of contemporary American culture, and of the myths which engendered and now sustain it, pervades virtually all of the films Altman has made in the eight years since M*A*S*H* was released. Altman's movies are subversive--not because they tell us what to think, but because they make it impossible for us to remain settled in our comfortable old beliefs. They expose the tangled, jury-rigged pulleys and levers that operated behind the quiet, smooth facades of the old Hollywood myth machines. The exposed machines still work...
...defects that prevent proper digestion of food. It is also used for burn victims and people receiving drug or radiation treatment following cancer surgery. Without intravenous feeding many of these patients would die, not of their diseases, but because they were unable to eat or absorb enough food to sustain life; they would literally starve to death. In fact, doctors estimate that at least 10% of all hospital deaths are attributable to malnutrition and another 30% are due in part to insufficient nourishment...
...daily mix," Giamatti says, he is not preoccupied with money problems, strikes or community relations. His underlying concern is for the institution itself--what it will be like for the next generation of students. "That's what you worry about--the profession," Giamatti explains, "how the institution can sustain young people." He views the younger faculty, soon to be the senior faculty, noting the declining sense of the "profession." He wants to see the school teach the people who want to learn, releasing original thought out into the world...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The House yesterday narrowly voted to sustain President Carter's veto of the $10.2 billion energy and water development bill...